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Unity in Action, Second Edition
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Unity in Action, Second Edition

by Joseph Hocking
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h
English
Manning Publications
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appendix B External tools used alongside Unity

Developing a game using Unity relies on a variety of external software tools for taking care of various tasks. In chapter 1, we discussed one external tool; MonoDevelop is technically a separate application, even though it’s bundled along with Unity. In a similar manner, developers rely on an array of external tools to do work not internal to Unity.

This isn’t to say that Unity is lacking capabilities that it ought to have. Rather, the game development process is so complex and multifaceted that any well-designed piece of software with a clear focus and clean separation of concerns will inevitably limit itself to being good at a limited subset of the process. In this case, Unity concentrates ...

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